# 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 / Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation — 第十二条の五 (Article 12-5)

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- Law: 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 (Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation), 昭和二十三年法律第百二十四号
- English title "Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation": claude-opus-5
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- Provision: 第十二条の五 (Article 12-5) — address `art-12-5`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-5
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### 第十二条の五
<sup>art-12-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-5</sup>

**第一項**  第一種大麻草採取栽培者は、その所有する麻薬を、当該者が当該麻薬を業務上取り扱う事務所内の鍵をかけた堅固な設備内に収めて保管するとともに、その所有する大麻（栽培地において現に生育するものを除く。）を、当該者が当該大麻を業務上取り扱う事務所内の鍵をかけた設備内に収めて保管しなければならない。
<sup>art-12-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-12-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-12-5/par-1</sup>
A type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator must store narcotics owned by the cultivator in a locked, sturdy facility within the office where the cultivator handles those narcotics in the course of business, and, at the same time, must store Cannabis owned by the cultivator (excluding that which is actually growing in the cultivation area) in a locked facility within the office where the cultivator handles that Cannabis in the course of business.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第二十五条第一項第七号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-25/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-25/par-1/item-7

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5 — English titles of cited laws, written for this site, written 2026-09-19
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000124/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-01
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch cannabis-cultivation-act-20261101T163143-002, translated 2026-11-02
- This site's parser, version 222 — 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01
